MUSIC / PERFORMANCE

West Side Fest

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
Various Times

Various locations up and down the West Side, Manhattan

Free
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This festival features free arts activities all day at various spots on the West Side. It gets Listed for two of them. First, at the New York City Aids Memorial, St. Vincent’s Triangle, West Village, at 4:00 PM, a reconstruction by Nick Hallett of a long-lost piece written for outdoor park performance by the composer who most anticipated (inspired?) what to this List’s way of thinking is best about Contemporary Classical music (at least in Brooklyn and Queens) — its freshness, its engagement with the vernacular — the late Arthur Russell. It will be played by such Russell collaborators as David Van Tieghem and Peter Zummo, and such Russell legatees as Lea Bertucci, Nat Baldwin, Shawn O’Sullivan, and Alex Waterman. Second, the hyper-Disco Dragon Sisters at a block party at The Shed, 545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, Manhattan starting at 3:00 PM.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In the West Village, Neapolitan pizza from Naples at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele NYC. At Hudson Yards, all-day Spanish at Spanish Diner.